What is some of your Pet Peeve's

[Oaktree]

One of the more modern car features that I love is adaptive cruise control. I can set it for the speed that I would like to go, and the car maintains a safe following distance with the car in front of me.

I find that I am more tolerant of cars in front of me that are varying their speed. If the car has been consistently traveling slower than my desired speed, and I have a good break in traffic behind me, then I'll try going around. Otherwise, it's easier to just wait in line. I'm not in that big of a hurry anymore.

I rarely use CC and have no idea if either of my vehicles has the adaptive cruise or not. Seems to me like it would be kind of an annoying feature. Variable speed drivers really drive me nuts. It's not so much being in a hurry as it is I like to cruise at a consistent comfortable speed and being behind someone who oscillates between 40 and 55 gets old fast, especially on windy 2 lane roads with few places to pass (and guaranteed when there is, there'll be a long line coming the other way ).

 

[Jstpssng]

... Variable speed drivers really drive me nuts. It's not so much being in a hurry as it is I like to cruise at a consistent comfortable speed and being behind someone who oscillates between 40 and 55 gets old fast.

Amen!! Pay attention to the road and what's going on around you. Fluctuating drivers cause a crack the whip effect for the poor guy 5 cars back.

I use CC almost constantly in warmer weather, including to increase and decrease speed. This time of year I really have to discipline myself, as using it on icy roads is a recipe for disaster.

 

[Runner]

Seems to me like it would be kind of an annoying feature. Variable speed drivers really drive me nuts.

Drives me nuts too, but I've found that the adaptive CC on the wife's Honda helps it to drive me less nuts because it handles the up/downs automatically.

You do have to watch out for certain situations, like sometimes when a car is slowing down to get into a turn lane, it will keep slowing down even when the car is all the way over (by which time you would normally have been on the gas again), then takes a while to get back up to speed.

Still I'd rather have it than not.

Now, the automatic lane-holding, brake warning and automatic door locks, I could do without....

 

[Jstpssng]

few places to pass (and guaranteed when there is, there'll be a long line coming the other way ).

Or when you can pass, they inevitably will speed up.


I have found on my company Tundra that I can turn the adaptive part off. It also has lane departure warnings and auto dimming headlights... both features which I never use.

 

[thepumpguysc]

I use the cruise CONSTANTLY.. it’s the absolute 3rd thing I do when I get in my truck..
1) start the engine.
2) adjust the radio.
3) turn on the cruise..
It’s been so long since I’ve HAD TO use the accelerator, I don’t know if the “memory muscle” in my foot even knows how..?? Lol

 

[thepumpguysc]

My wife REFUSES to use it..
So I just sit there in the passenger seat getting sea sick..

 

[Too many Kubotas]

I have used the cruise control on my '17 Ram a couple of times, years ago, to activate the high idle.

Once driving, I prefer to drive rather than being driven.

 

[Oaktree]

Or when you can pass, they inevitably will speed up.

Related peeve: when you're the 3rd or 4th one behind a poky driver and the one directly behind the poke doesn't pass when an opportunity comes along. Generally not enough straightaway to pass 3 cars.

I use the cruise CONSTANTLY.. it’s the absolute 3rd thing I do when I get in my truck..

Most of my driving is on 2 lane secondary roads where CC isn't really practical. Once in a while I'll use it if I'm on an interstate if I think of it.

 

[WinterDeere]

Related peeve: when you're the 3rd or 4th one behind a poky driver and the one directly behind the poke doesn't pass when an opportunity comes along. Generally not enough straightaway to pass 3 cars.

Depending on which vehicle I'm driving, I will occasionally leap two cars in a single pass, in these situations. Not a move to pull in a pickup truck, or really anything else without overwhelmingly-dominant horsepower.

I've never had a problem doing this, but given the offender is often elderly and I have a few vehicles with relatively loud exhaust, I do sometimes worry the loud car flashing by at double-speed will frighten them out of their slumber and right into the ditch.

If I lived in the west, where roads are long and straight instead of our usual winding mess through the trees, I'd probably be willing to hop up to 5 cars in a pass.

 

[Jstpssng]

I passed a string of cars in my '98 Sierra years ago which I shouldn't have. It was Saturday morning, I had been gone all week and if I didn't get home before the PO closed it would be another week before I could get there.
That truck would hit 100 at the drop of a hat. I went by about 1/2 dozen cars, pulled in and had just gotten slowed down when I met a deputy sheriff.

That would have been a "go directly to jail, do not pass GO" offense.

 

[Too many Kubotas]

I've never had a problem doing this, but given the offender is often elderly and I have a few vehicles with relatively loud exhaust, I do sometimes worry the loud car flashing by at double-speed will frighten them out of their slumber and right into the ditch.

My record is five tightly packed cars. Was out of patience by the time we got to a reasonably straight section of road.

And I have also wondered about the sound effects when passing. The Challenger is LOUD when getting on it. When passing horse trailers I always let off when going by them.

 

[garry1p]

When passing a string I'm worried one of the cars I'm passing will pull out to pass with out checking his rear.
The other concern is the lead car was going slow because he planned to turn and there he is turning left just before I get there.

 

[Too many Kubotas]

When passing a string I'm worried one of the cars I'm passing will pull out to pass with out checking his rear.
The other concern is the lead car was going slow because he planned to turn and there he is turning left just before I get there.

I've had some close calls like that. Try to do a Marty Feldman and look ahead for opposing traffic while also keeping an eye on the next car I'm about to go past.

That's where the loud exhaust comes in handy...but that doesn't work with the 3500 or the other cars.

 

[WinterDeere]

I have also wondered about the sound effects when passing. The Challenger is LOUD when getting on it. When passing horse trailers I always let off when going by them.

I assume your car also has the active exhaust? Can't remember which years and configurations got that.

My Charger has it, and it barks like a race car when those exhaust valves open wide. Always fun on a cold morning, as that's about the only time you get to hear them opened to max dilation when hitting the remote start.

Anyway, when you get on it, I believe those ports gradually open as the engine spools up. The idea is to restrict the exhaust and maintain back-pressure at lower RPM's to hold closer to peak torque, and then open as the RPM's climb, to peak the horsepower as much as possible. This is why the car sounds relatively tame at low RPM's, but can still scream when you get on it and drop a gear.

 

[Too many Kubotas]

I assume your car also has the active exhaust? Can't remember which years and configurations got that.

Yes, it has the active setup, but for whatever reason my '18 is much louder than my girlfriend's '19. She doesn't like that.

Not that her's is quiet by any means. I've been behind her when she was passing cars.

 

[bigtiller]

I seldom ever get to pass someone. It seams as if everyone is driving 7mph faster than me.

 

[masseyrider]

I passed a string of cars in my '98 Sierra years ago which I shouldn't have. It was Saturday morning, I had been gone all week and if I didn't get home before the PO closed it would be another week before I could get there.
That truck would hit 100 at the drop of a hat. I went by about 1/2 dozen cars, pulled in and had just gotten slowed down when I met a deputy sheriff.

That would have been a "go directly to jail, do not pass GO" offense.

This happened close to 50 years ago.
I dropped my mother off at her friends place and headed for home.
Driving a Sierra Grande 3/4 ton 350 4 barrel.
Door to door it should have been aboot 1 hr, 3/4 on the highway.
When I was leaving Ma said to call her when I got home so she knew I was OK.
Got on the highway and got mixed up with 3 other vehicles speeding.
We were doing 100mph+.
Not far from my exit a station wagon pulled in front of me.
I don't know if he did it because there was a radar cop under the next overpass and he saved me a major ticket or he just didn't see me.
That scrubbed off some major brake lining.
The cop never did go after the other guys. Like what could he do?
I got home in just under 30 minutes.
You should have heard Ma on the other end. She knew I was home because she could hear the dogs barking in the background.
I think I got aboot 5mpg that trip, almost 3/4 tank.

 

[JethroB]

I use cruise when passing through our rural towns. Notorious speed traps. A local cop at each of the 45 to 35 mph slow-down areas.

As a teen I was pulled over by a state trooper on a Sunday afternoon doing 96 mph. He took my license and just said “Follow me”. Huh?
I got really nervous when he turned into the county jail. I was able to call an older friend to come sign a property bond.

 

[ultrarunner]

I like to use cruise on my 12 hour drive to Olympia and not worry about tickets along the way.

I also used it driving the Oregon Coast as I had been warned… didn’t even know I could use it at 25 mph.

Sure enough encountered several cruisers lying in wait… one officer even had a grin as I passed spot on the posted speed…

 

[Too many Kubotas]

And here I thought that it was fully possible to drive the speed limit without using cruise control.